The best way you can make a difference in preventing animal cruelty is to reduce and eliminate the animals on your plate. The less animals you eat, the fewer that will be killed and the fewer that will live a life of misery. With the ready availability of products in stores and restaurants that cater to veg dining, it's easier than ever before! For a comprehensive resource to compassionate shopping and eating in the Seattle area, go to our guide to Veg Seattle .
Another project of NARN is UW Kills Animals to inform and educate the public about the abuses and cruelty done by the University of Washington to animals in their laboratories. Over 16,000 animals are kept captive in secluded locations, with over 3000 of them being primates. Help us hold UW accountable!
The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle is ranked as the second-worst facility for captive elephants. WPZ places profits above the health and lives of the elephants held there, sometimes with tragic and fatal results. We have been working to get them released to a sanctuary. Visit our site Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants for more information and ways you can help.
We also sponsor the Compassionate Consumer Circle , a comprehensive resource of animal-related services, such as pet-sitters, no-kill shelters, sanctuaries, clinics, businesses and retail shops, throughout the Puget Sound region. C3 also publishes the Animal Services Guide, a convenient directory that is available in most animal-friendly establishments.
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YOU!
For those in the Seattle area, please check out our calendar for upcoming events--we would love to have you involved! Every action you can take to help animals, no matter how big or small, is never an action in vain.
Everything we do is dependent on volunteer support, whether by participation or by donations. We are an all-volunteer-run organization, so 100% of the money donated to us will go directly to our advocacy efforts. We are always in need of donations, so we appreciate anything you can give to us to help out the animals. We now accept PayPal, so donating is easier than ever. Hit "Donate" for a one-time donation of whatever amount you wish, or "Subscribe" to make a monthly donation of either $10 or $25.
$10/mo. donation $25/mo. donation NARN has no paid staff, so we depend on the good deeds of volunteers willing to give up some of their time to help us out. If you'd like to volunteer your time, please send us a message and we can give you information on what we're involved in currently and what we would love to have your help for. On behalf of the animals, we thank you for your support!
This profile edited and managed by Pete, NARN board member.
UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION VIDEOS:
Hallmark Meat Packing Company slaughter plant, CA
House of Raeford Farms poultry slaughterhouse, NC
Rodeos, OH
45 Days: The Life and Death of a Broiler Chicken
Fioe Gras production at Elevages Perigord, Quebec
Kosher Slaughterhouses
Horse Slaughterhouse
Conditions inside pig farms
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Seattle viewers!
Watch Undercover TV on SCAN-TV (Seattle Community Access Network). Airs on Channel 77 (Comcast in Seattle) at midnight Wednesday (technically Thursday 12:00 am).
This series is produced by IDA (In Defense of Animals) in California and submitted to SCAN-TV by NARN.
If you would like to help NARN continue to offer SCAN content, please send us a message. The more people submitting animal advocacy content, the better.
Go Vegan Radio , hosted by Bob Linden, is the planet's only commercial radio show about veganism and animal rights. Right now, podcasts of the show are available from local radio station KPTK AM 1090 . KPTK is planning on broadcasting Go Vegan Radio on its airwaves, but would like your input. Please click on the "KPTK AM 1090" link above to contact them.
Vegan Freak Radio podcasts are a little irreverent, a little more hip, and wholly entertaining and informative. Get your freak on!
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Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? - Gary Francione
Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement - Gary Francione
Vegan Freak - Bob Torres & Jenna Torres
Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights - Bob Torres
Vegan Nutrition - Steven M. Wise
Diet For A New America - John Robbins
The Food Revolution - John Robbins
Diet For A Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe
Animal Liberation - Peter Singer
Ocean Warrior: My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas - Paul Watson
Vivisection and Dissection in the Classroom: A Guide to Conscientious Objection - Gary Francione and Anne Charlton
Neither Man Nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals - Carol J. Adams
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory - Carol J. Adams
The Pornography of Meat - Carol J. Adams
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture - Jeremy Rifkin
Ethics of Consumption - Crocker & Linden
Hope's Edge - Frances Moore Lappe & Anne Lappe
Practical Ethics - Peter Singer
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Bioethics - Peter Singer
In Defense of Animals - Peter Singer
One World: The Ethics of Globalization - Peter Singer
Common Ground - Adrian Moyes
Animal Factories - Peter Singer and Jim Mason
The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Scientific Change - Dr. Bernard Rollin
The Case for Animal Rights - Tom Regan
Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals - Steven M. Wise
Suicide Food
(a wry and engaging blog by Seattle's Ben Grossblatt that examines in advertising the phenomenon of animals that desire to be eaten)
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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." - Neal D. Barnard , M.D. (President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet" - Albert Einstein
"When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings." - William C. Roberts, M.D. (Editor of The American Journal of Cardiology)
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." - Abraham Lincoln
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own." - Robert Louis Stevenson